Fire-screen.



No. 706,596, Pafented Aug. I2, 1902 c. rowan.

' FIRE scam.

(Applicstion and June 1, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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CLAUD POYNER, OF MARTIN, TENNESSEE.

FIRE-SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 706,596, dated August 12, 1902. Application filed June 1, 1901. Serial No. 62,737. (No model.)

To all w/tom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, OLAUDPOYNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Martin, in the county of Weakley and State of Ten nessee, have invented a new and useful Fire- Screen, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in firescreen to fireplaces of various widths and also to provide a locking device whereby the edges are securely held in their adjusted position.

With these objects in view my invent-ion consists in the peculiar arrangements and combinations of parts, as will be fully described in the following specification and pointed out in the claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which--- Figural is a view showing the practical ap plication of my screen. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the screen, showing it in connectionwith a mantel. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing it in connection with the edge of the grateframe. Fig. 4 is a perspectiveview of the reverse side of the screen, andFig. 5 is a detail view of one corner of the screen, showing a hinged connection between the front and side portions. V

In practice I prefer to make the screen of sheet metal and to form the front portion A thereof with rearwardly-extending sides B, which are preferably bent at X and arranged at an angle to the front. portion and having their ends terminating in angular sections 0, which are bent at X and arranged in" the same plane as the front of the screen. Upon the inner surfaces of the sides B are securely bolted plates D, having apertures d, that register with apertures 12, arranged in the sides B of the screen, and through these apertures belts or rods E are passed, the free or inner ends" thereofbeing threaded and adapted to work in threaded apertures formed in a turnbuckle F, by means of which the sides of the screen may be inwardly adjusted and held in such contracted position while the screen is being put into or taken out of position. The outer ends of, the rods are provided with'knobs E, by which the rods are operated, as will be readily understood.

Upon the front portion of the screen, near the top thereof, I secure a bail-handle G,

by which the screen may be lifted and carried from place to place or held while it is being adjusted.

When it is desired to adjust the screen to a fireplace, the ends are inserted between the mantel .and wall or behind the edge of the ornamental facing or grate-front that surrounds the fireplace. It will thus be manifest that the operation is exceedingly simple and requires but a short time for adjustment. When it is desired to remove the screen, the rods are turned so as to draw the sides inwardly, disengaging the ends from the 1nantel or'grate-frame, and the screen may be removed.

' the screen is made of one piece of sheet metal,

the sides andends being bent toform the design described; bntI reserve the right to hinge the sides to the.body, as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, should it be found desirable to do so.

Having thus fnllydescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A fire-screen formed of a single piece of sheet metal and comprising a bodyportion A bent at X to form the sides,B,'the free ends of the said sides being bent at X to form lateral extensions parallel to but in therearof the plane of the body portion of thescr'een, the

said sides B, having apertures arranged therein, reinforcing plates D, having apertures registering with the apertures in the said cured to the body portion of the screen, all sides, rods projecting through the apertures arranged substantially as and for the pur and having their inner ends threaded, a turnpose set forth.

buckle engaging the threaded ends of the rods, CLAUD POYNER. 5 handleportions formed upon the outer ends Witnesses:

of the rods and adapted to bear against the E. B. J OLLEY,

said sides of the screen, and a bail-handle se- 0. H. BENNETT. 

